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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1929)
FARMERS SPLIT WITH FROGS TRACK TEAM CONTINUES TO WIN HIGH SCHOOL TRACK MEET THIS WEEK END HERE AND THERE The Ag'gie Nine has five men on the club hitting three hundred or AGGIES HOT IN S. W. C. TRACK RACE INTRAMURALS Playground Ball—Horseshoe Pitth- ing—Swimming AGGIES WIN SECOND OF SERIES above. * * * Some things and people around here can be taken too seriously— they are only saying things to see how they will sound, more like the Parrot every day. * * * We have been advised not to make certain remarks about the game last Friday. The players were more de pressed over the loss than anyone. 5jS JjC There is a certain class of peo ple that fall down and go Boom’— other just fall down. ❖ * * Letters commenting on this sea son’s nine are being received. Some of these are very worthy; and some week when we can’t work up any thing to say we are liable to hold forth on a sort of an old home week and publish them. * * * Things aren’t as gloomy as they seem; we still have a fighting chance— don’t go boom. * * * Two score years ago—less thirty eight, someone used the expression that Coach Anderson was very much elated over his track prospects. He says that its going to be a close fight but give him a few men like Capt. Dan, Slocumb, Sessions, and others. * * * Rice has it all figured out so that they are to come out on top—we can’t use their calculations, sorry. RESILTS OF LAST WEEK’S GAMES Baseball Aggies 2-2-3—Texas 2-0-7. Texas J0.-10—S. M. U. 1-4.^— T. C. U. 5-11—Rice 3-12. T. C. U. 3-1—Baylor 2-3. Rice 7-14—S. M. U. 5-8. Baylor 7-8—Texas 5-3. Aggies 3-9—T. C. U. 5-8. Track Aggies 69—Rice 48. Simmons 74—T. C. U. 43. Baylor 8G—T. C. U. 31. Texas 87, S. M. U. 39, Baylor 36. The Texas Aggie track team, one of the ranking favorites to cop the Conference championship this year, carried the gospel of Aggieland athletics a bit further into the hearts of Houstonians a week and a half ago when they sent the Rice Insti tute Owl runners and jumpers down into defeat by a 69 to 48 score. A torrential downpour the night be fore made the track and field exceed ingly heavy, but did not prevent the keenest sort of competition from taking place. Don Slocumb and Herman Harlan took care of the low's and highs res pectively in fine style, with Hodges and Tracy bringing home the break fast in the quarter. The mile relay team (O’Neillj Hodges, Tracy, and Sessions) easily showed a muddy pair of heels to the feathered flock’s output. The firm of Bracey, Brun son, Jacobe, and Willis, however, cleaned up On the sprints and dis tances for the Owls. (C«HtinB*d *n Pag;* 0) RELAY MEN BACK FROM KANSAS Dashing Dan O’Neill, debonair cap tain of this year’s track edition of the Texas Aggie track team, Green ville’s ideal, and holder of many other like honors, gained fame on new and far distant fields this past week-end. It all started when Coach Andy packed his mile relay team in his car and started for Waco to catch the train to Lawrence, Kan sas, and the Kansas relays. Near Marlin the car brushed against another such vehicle to be gin things. Then in Oklahoma a small boy (Dan swears that it was an Indian escaped from the reserva tion and on the warpath) tossed a rock through the window of the obsexwation car landing uncomforta bly between Dan’s shoulder blades and giving him an unlocked for shower of flying glass. In Kansas a fair damsel offered to give the boys a lift to the hotel. Some of the Kansas boys also ac cepted the offer, but these were lost (Continued on Page 9) The intramural department enter ed upon its busiest period of the in tramural season with the opening of the Intramural playground ball lea gues last week and the largest parti cipation record for any sport since thb introduction of the intramural program at A. and M. is expected in this popular game. Last year more that four hundred participated in the contests conducted by the intramur- cil department and. the in tor-cot 'wtto so great that another set of leagues, known as the Class “B” leagues, have been instituted to care for the increasing number of players. These leagues will make it possible for at least three hundred more students to take part in the recreational pro gram sponsored by the athletic de partment. Seven diamonds have been placed on the drill field and these will be used each day for games. Teams wishing practice fields may go to Kyle Field where there are four diamonds on the Freshman foot ball field. The class “B” leagues will be started about the middle of the week. Horseshoe pitching is due to begin April 29 and the following Saturday the swimming meet will be held. Horseshoes have been issued to each organization and teams should be selected now as a list of the mem bers of the teams must be turned in at the intramural office before the leagues open. No members of th A. and M. Swimming Club will be allowed to enter the annual splash Jrponsored by the Intramural department. The studets could not possible compete with the best swimmers in the South and expect to even place, so these swimmers have been barred and is open to all other students of the col lege. The volleyball leagues have closed and the finals remain to be played. The absence of the C a det Corps in the stands was very noticable in the score of the Frog games, Coun tryman’s nine seemed to be dead on their feet and were slow in getting off. A large amount of this was probably due to the fact that the band was not on hand, and the spec tators were of the more reserved type. First Game Mills started duty on the mound for the Aggies but was only able to stay a part of two innings. He was wild, and in that time gave the op ponents four men on base on balls. Kasprowicz relieved Mills late in the second. There were two men on base and another walk loaded them. The side was retired after they had scored two runs. Things went along very smoothly until the fifth when Lackey doubled to deep right and was scored by Kas- prowicz’s single. The Frogs came back for another run in the sixth and again in the seventh. A. & M. made their other counter in the eighth when Bell doubled and was scored by Cody’s single. Bell and Lackey led the Aggie of fensive for the day; both appearing at bat four times and getting two hits each. The score ended: Frogs 5—Ags.2. Second Game The batteries for the second game were: Ags.—Wendt and Lackey; T. C. U.—Cox and Walker. Wendt, the little Aggie Southpaw, was due for a hard day when an er ror allowed the first frog to face him to get to first. A man was hit by a pitched ball another walked. The Visitors were retired after they had took off a four run lead. They scored again in the third, twice in the fourth, and once in the ninth. The home club managed to put across three counters in the first A very successful season has been when Johns doubled, Conover singled, reported this year and this sport and Bell slapped one out for one sack, promies to be very popular in the future, as least when more learn to play the game. Five teams remain in the race for all men scoring. Cody’s sliding pad flopped into a pitched ball and he took first, advanced to third, and was caught in a forced play at the the handball title and tlie champion- j plate, the batter was also thrown sh : p of the school will be known by j out, giving the Frogs credit for the the end of the w^eek. A singles and only double play of the series, doubles tournament will be started Rcch’nberg relieved Wendt in the (Continued on Page 9) j fourth and managed to keep the hits